Nathaniel Silsbee

Nathaniel Silsbee (14 January 1773-14 July 1850) was a member of the US House of Representatives (F-MA 2) from 4 March 1817 to 3 March 1821, succeeding Timothy Pickering and preceding Gideon Barstow, and a member of the US Senate (W) from 31 May 1826 to 3 March 1835, succeeding James Lloyd and preceding John Davis.

Biography
Nathaniel Silsbee was born in Salem, Massachusetts in 1773, and he ran a profitable shipping industry for several decades. From 1817 to 1821, he served in the US House of Representatives as a Federalist Party member, and he then served in the State Senate from 1823 to 1825 and in the US Senate from 1826 to 1835. He resumed his mercantile pursuits in Salem after leaving politics, and he died in 1850.